House of Putbus

In 1807 Wilhelm Malte I was created prince (Fürst) by king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Swedish Pomerania.

[1] When the original male line became extinct in 1854, the lordship and the titles were inherited by progeny of daughters (see Wilhelm Malte I: Progeny), with royal Prussian consent and for the later generations recognized by the judicial committee of the umbrella organization of Germany's nobility associations, and such entered into the Almanach de Gotha.

[2] Malte von Putbus (1889–1945), 5th prince, landowner on Rügen Island, was killed by the Nazis in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on 10 February 1945 because of his contacts with resistance fighters, after the 20 July plot.

The Communists in East Germany confiscated the estate that extended over a sixth of the island of Rügen, and destroyed Putbus Palace.

He owns some farmland on Rügen Island as well as one of the cavalier houses on the neoclassical Putbus Circus, the roundabout that once represented the forecourt of the residential palace.